All the 'I's together


I am too lazy to carry a helmet and so I ride bare head 
I feel too lazy to put on a seat belt so I just drive away
I feel too boring waiting on a signal, so I break it and find a way 
Well you know it's easy, I don't like rules so I live my way!!

I know I am supposed to pay the tax and be loyal
But then cheating tax is more fun than savings, get a trail!

I know I shouldn't buy cricket tickets in black
But "chalta Hai Yar" no one gives a damn!

I steal headsets from Tejas express, I write ugly things on walls of buses
I stop on road side to pee while driving and never have I bothered about it more or less

I like breaking queues, and getting my things done faster
My toddler is watching me do this and guess who's the next master?


I am on Facebook, l use it actively but have lesser real friends, 
So I find random girl's profile and spam her with shittiest message I can ever make


I went to the area where shilpi lives, we planned to study together
I asked an aunty to find her address and then she took me along her.
I don't know what happened amidst the time; I was pushed and locked in a house
Now I am somewhere trafficked in a dessert dealing with unknowns of the owls!


I married a women who helped me in my fields, she bore happily all the scars
But I hit her, wound her in anger, as she protested against my favorite wine bar


I became Uncle. My big brother got a daughter, white as dove was she.
Slowly after months she crawled then chirped with cheeks all blushy,
And then one day she hopped to her uncle's lap as to climb a tower,
But my lust wondered how it feels to crush such a fresh and innocent flower.


I wear saree and my friend wears burkha, because it's said by our men.
They think it keeps our culture alive and as wearing jeans is a bad omen.

I and my boss went for "chai", he offered me first "sutta", he said its cool.
Last month he detected lung cancer. I still smoke..no no I ain't a fool. 


I own huge properties in country, that unbeaten lawyer is my friend
I wanted to fit my cash during demonetization
My friend helped me, now I am holidaying in England!


I and friends gather at old tree even today at our 50s for talks and laughter
The hut near the tree is all new where lives the family of a Potter.
He has a teen daughter, who helps him in pot making,
But we plot to abduct and molest her and feel like a conqueror king.


I protested against unemployment, I faked a pakoda stall,
Lest I remember, I was rejected due to lack of skills from all the interview calls


I want some temple, some mosque and some church.
I publish how great is my value and culture
I make sure my God is present in all of the world parts
Such 'I's usually forget to check their hearts


I protest on roads for strengthening my reservation, burn tires and gasket
My dad is an officer, owns a Mansion in Worli, but my strength is still my caste certificate.
Some really deserve the reservation I get, but that's not my worry,
I want things to come easy at me, even my bread, butter and curry!


I am angered by mis-happenings; I feel my country is bad
I write blogs, posts and poems, just like this one I had.
I feel it's good to go abroad; I speak this often to my friend
But if Amir doesn't even says so, I sulk and call it a publicity trend


I am so confused, I keep watching news
I don’t understand what’s right and wrong
I don’t know who is worth, whom should I vote
As all sing the same diplomatic song.

It all starts small, and then it gets bigger, like a snow ball,
Better we unite sooner; we never know which is a last call…


Comments

  1. Our country will be called "The golden bird" again when these 'I's will start thinking about others or atleast peep into their hearts even once.
    It is rightly said " The pen is mightier than a sword". Keep it up..

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  2. It's amezing mam .........
    Really touching.......
    Each and every situation is exactly related somewhere to the real world incidences .......
    The words u have used are innocently questioning the hidden childish wishes and some unsaid truths......
    These words are forcing to take a step ahead to think to understand ...to live and to let live .......
    Nice to read something by u after a long time......
    Keep and keep sharing .........
    It's indeed my pleasure to read ur articles .....☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺��������������������

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  3. Upbringing lessons, practical awareness and a pinch of morals will do I guess ....it will help the 'I' to understand that he owes something to the nation all the time ,will help him stop at an accident and take some action rather than just clicking videos ,will help him contributing something to the nation rather than just criticizing the well oiled government machinery ,will help him understand the difference between supporting feminism online and asking his daughter, girlfriend,wife to dress in limits in real life and lot more ........
    Good one Aditi ...sharp if I may say so...write more often

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  4. Very nice article...keep it up Aditi!!!!

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  5. Very well written! The world will become far better place if people start looking at themselves first..

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  6. Very nice. Perfectly depicted a free bird hiding inside every guy. Everyone feels it but very few understand and expresses it. Keep writing, to Aditi and beyond.

    ---Sanket Kutumbe

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  9. Well done my writer!!
    Very straight forward and crisp...
    You just put forward the thoughts that are going today in every young confused Indian and the dilemma he is hoing trought...
    Great to hear from you again!!

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  10. Very well drafted!
    Loved it! Just like you, I am confused too.

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  11. Nice thoughts written in such a small blog. Long way to go writer.

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  12. Beautiful thoughts, nicely expressed

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  14. Well written
    Society goes through different phases... things become normal but only after getting worse
    Hope this is the worst phase which would end sooner and Good days are Ahead.

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  15. Very Well written Aditi... Very apt..
    Framing these disturbing thoughts into words is really a difficult task.
    Keep it up!!

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  16. Very Well written Aditi... Very apt..
    Framing these disturbing thoughts into words is really a difficult task.
    Keep it up!!

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  17. Very Well written Aditi... Very apt..
    Framing these disturbing thoughts into words is really a difficult task.
    Keep it up!!

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  18. Well written, exactly pointing the darkness and the reason behind all our worries!!!

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